Cheerful picture with illustrations. Highly recommended. My daughter love this book.

I am trying to teach my developmentally challenged son sign language - as well as teach his grandparents and father. This book really helped all of them and kept his attention while we read it. It is simple and easy to understand. Just what we needed!

My two year old learned to sign these words quickly and enjoys reading this book over and over again. It has clear illustrations of signs and attractive pictures of common nouns and verbs in a young child's world.

BOOKSTORE CAT is a nice little story with colorful, fun pictures full of interest. And a surprisingly good plot for a learn-to-read book! The author has obviously had a personal relationship with a cat, as she's captured Mulligan's personality and "priorities" very well. What intrigues me is the whole concept of "Step into Reading" books. This is a Step 1 book for the earliest readers. (There are four steps.) If you're new to them, as I am, let me tell you there are a LOT of titles in the series (listed at the back of the book). Some are Sesame Street books, Thomas the Tank Engine, Arthur, and more. If you have a preschooler, you might want to look into these.

This is a GREAT book for kids - my 18 month old daughter LOVES this book and I am lucky if I can get through pre-nap time or pre-bed time reading without having to read this book aloud more than three times.

The book is written so that there is the right amount of text and pictures on each page to hold a small attention span captive long enough to read the entire book. My daughter enjoys and understands the plot, the protagonist/antagonist characters, and happily points out the mommys, babies and animals; she especially likes shaking her little finger and saying "No no no" and "uh oh" to the character in the story who tries to enter the bookstore.

This book is also good to use as a tool for exposing a child to a second language; I can easily point to things and ask my daughter to show me the gato, the libro, the ventana, etc.

If you are looking for a book that is the next step after board books for younger children OR a first step with a beginning reader....this is it!

Happy reading and remember.....every book store needs a Bookstore Cat!

I really like this book. The pictures are beautiful and the signs are very clear. I wanted something very simple to show
the children at school and this is both simple and self explanitory. Each picture is followed by another picture showing the action and then there is a "hint" explaining hand positions and movement. I think the children at my school are going to love this book.

This book like its companion book "Simple Signs" was designed for the everyday person. Both books contain signs needed on a daily basis and is a wonderful first book of signs. The diagrams and explanations of how to do the sign are first rate and easy to understand and the illustrations are beautiful. I can not say enough about these books except to thank Cindy Wheeler for understanding her audience so well.

My 21-month-old loves the simple story and illustrations. He emulates all of the animal noises and loves the sweet pictures of Marmalade napping-- or trying to. This is a great interactive book to read with your little one. Worth the trouble of an out of print search!

The best part of this book is the fascinating insight one gets into the crazy world of professional bodybuilding. It makes me realize that one needs a full-frontal lobotomy to actually want to participate in this seedy environment that requires one to become self-absorbed and take illegal and dangerous drugs to compete effectively.

In Flex Wheeler's book Flex Ability, we see Flex's rise in a "sport" full of narcissistic, immature, backstabbing group of steroid users. I give this book 2 stars just for this interesting and honest perspective.

However, Flex himself is nothing more than a huge disappointment. He is no hero. He is no savior. He is in fact he same narcissistic and immature individual that this sport breeds. He ignores his responsibilities and indulges himself shamelessly. In a steriod-like rage, he bullies and beats those smaller than him. He hangs all his troubles on his past and attempts suicide numerous times. He throws tantrums when he comes in only 2nd or 3rd in national or international competitions and has absolutely no appreciation for his friends, fans, his natural God-given and genetic abilities or his success. He is, in my opinion, a loser.

Eventual, Flex finds God. But I'm unconvinced that this new perspective on life has changed Flex at all. In his book, he has no pictures of his first child (of which he took no responsibility) or his second child. He still storms off the stage when he loses a major competition convinced he should have won.

All in all, interesting book on bodybuilding, disappointing book on Flex Wheeler the man.

I was immediately drawn to this book due to my lifelong fasination with muscles, especially as displayed in the world of bodybuilding with the art of muscle sculpting. I was delighted to not only find a story of a great athlete but also pages filled with risk, struggle, love, belief, triumph, endurance and miracles. This is a story of a stronger than life spirit that meets his every challenge with a strength greater than any amount of physical weight that can be lifted. What an incredible inspiration Flex Wheeler is and his story is worth knowing.

Flex Ability: A Story of Strength and Survival by Flex Wheeler is written in a fluid of connecting pieces that easily allows the reader to paint a vivid picture of the authors life story. This was such a nice easy read that I found it hard to put down. Flex Wheeler is a man with integrity who tells it like it is, makes no excuses and picks himself up and moves on to his next challenge. Childhood trauma, poverty, fatherhood, pro-athlete status, steroids, diuretics, severe auto accident, hereditary disease Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), fame, drug free and finally peace - Flex has survived it all. Readers young and old can take something away for themselves from his life story.

Today Flex is a champion of his spirit and speaks out about the dangers of using steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs and uses his life story to teach others.

Flex Ability: A Story of Strength and Survival by Flex Wheeler is a book worth your time and attention. This is a great choice for an afternoon summer read!

This book really lets you see the real Flex Wheeler from the inside out. He gets down to the dirt of what is printed about him and clarifies the untruths. You'll love this book. I could't put it down.